Italian Malaise

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The sun in the south, the mountains in the north and stunningly beautiful cities in between: Life in Italy, one might think, is just short of paradise. But residents of the country are deeply unhappy. With 46% of Italians claiming to be unhappy despite having greater private wealth, a longer life expectancy and better weather than people in most other European countries. Why? Because they trusted government over individuals. They have elite know-it-all know-nothings in the North and cities with deep contempt for the south and rural. Sound familiar?


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I have nothing against Italy. In fact, I have a lot of family there, and it's got great people and culture. But they believed in centralized government, and the wisdom of the masses, and the state over the individual: and the results was a slow decay in malaise, that the individuals all admit is stifling, but none will question their prime assumptions enough to fix. The wise give up and leave, or at least stop trying -- and the rest are resigned to complain and climb to the bottom and be the biggest victims. And that's Progressive Democratic Socialism in a nutshell.